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| (...) One nit of clarification-- the module is designed to *remain* on the plywood table, and it is transported as one unit. You *could* pick up a module free of support, but that's dicey business, given how long it takes to put them together in (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| (...) There are two competing philosophies here... PNLTC has tables. They put their tables together and they build the layout "from scratch" each time, putting track together and buildings down, etc. onto a brown or green colored table. At least (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| (...) More like using up all those *sizes* nobody likes. Our outer walls are always red; inner yellow. The inside is basically 2x2 towers fortifies every 5-6 rows with a layer of 2x4s. It's very sturdy:-) We *only* use 2x4s on the outer walls, but (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| John, Is there some reason to put 20 levels of bricks other than to use up all those bricks in colors nobody likes? The only thing I can think of is so that you can drop down 20 layers to make a subway, but it seems cheaper to just build a platform (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| john, the secret to ascii art is to use a fixed width font (such as courier) of course, those of us who use ie5 might have trouble viewing this ascii art done with the 'correct' fixed width font because the #@$%&* program refuses to display it in (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| lol I just saw my beautiful ascii art-- Is there a secret to keeping stuff straight? -John (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| Mike- At the GMLTC, we use about a 30 x45" table (= to exactly 6 large gray baseplates) with metal folding legs. Our newest tables flare out to give us more room (6" IIRC): ___...___ l l l l l l l l l l l____l____l____l____...____l____l l l l l l l (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
| | | | | Re: NMRA Convention Accomodations
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| (...) Are many people going to show up? What about a LegoFest or at least a get together? I'm going to go, haven't decided whether it will be Saturday or Sunday yet. (27 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains.org)
| | | | | Re: Macs (was Re: GMLTC Teaser page)
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| (...) Classic Corporate Arrogance. Apple almost killed themselves with stupidity. If they had allowed Macs to be cloned, and had ported MacOS to the intel platform around the time of OS/2 1.1 and Windows 2.0, this would be a far different (better?) (...) (27 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general)
| | | | | NMRA Convention Accomodations
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| I'm seriously considering making the trip but I'm not sure what day(s) would be the best to attend. If I can't get a reasonable price on a NW flight I'd probably drive up to NW Chicago after work on Thursday and then the rest of the trip Friday, or (...) (27 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains.org)
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